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| eh it was okay, im still wondering when they're gonna properly introduce the eyepatch girl pair and the connections between all three if there is one (which i hope there is) the story is so cliche and the reaching into dalian's chest sequence in this kind of art sucked >_>; lol at the bugs, overgrown mantis lawl |
| Lol I was wondering what happened to the animation, then come to find out they were inside of the book. It was a interesting concept in its own way I suppose. Looking forward to next episode. |
RyanSaotome said: arsonal said: InfiniteRyvius said: What an ingenious way to have a low budget episode. To make it obvious that they were in a world inside a book, the art was like that of a book, although it was of course animated. It isn't low budget art. The art is courtesy of Osamu Kobayashi, who provided this episode's storyboard direction. I still think it looked and animated low budget. I mean just look at a still frame like this: You shouldn't have bad art that close up if you have a good budget. Derp!Dalian, I laugh so hard at this xDD Well, the art, the art, but also the episode was kind of senseless... xD |
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| Little boring..also I was wondering if it was just me that was seeing things with the art change..huh..guess not D| Was just the story book after all.. |
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| I liked the idea of trying to change the art to look more like a book and fit the plot but... Sorry, I didn't like the animation at all. I think they could have tried harder :/ It's a nice change and all, but it really looked like they had run out of money. The backgrounds were great, the characters not so much. A book-like art is not a an excuse for derp scenes. The story was ok too, I liked how they added the bookworms into a story about books XD |
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Mormegil said: tsubasalover said: Introduces the girl who looks like ugly ver. of Nausicaa... I knew I wasn't alone in thinking that she looked somewhat like Nausicaa. I'm not the only one then I actually liked the story. The art is so-so, I have no problem with it, but it's not animated well. The characters are like bunch of figures moving to me because their movements are so stiff. |
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| I liked the change in art style for this episode. I like the experimentation and unique feel it had. Of course, this should only be implemented for this single episode. The episode was decent. |
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| Who would've thought they were traversing a book? It was very nice, calming and a good change of pace. And I loved the art style, for this one episode anyway. *thumbs up*  |
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| Knew they were inside a book after they mentioned world is falling apart in the beginning, just wasn't sure what they were doing there till they explained it. I guess it's pretty unique that the whole point was to kill bugs which damaged the book's story and condition by actually going inside the book. |
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| One only needs to look at the animation style to know they're inside a book. Pretty obvious stuffs. And lol at OP. Ugly version of Nausicaa. |
| Huey: Dalian, why are they here? Are they running away from the barrier around the printing workshop? Dalian: No, the insects are not that clever. Holy crap, so Dalian can say no? That right there makes the episode good enough for me. XD |
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I find this episode to be intriguing with its art and was not sure if I was watching exactly the same anime for some time until I figured it out eventually near the end. I did find it weak in the storyline. I mean spending a whole episode to show the world of a book and the problem of insect eating the story of a book. Well first of all those must be mythical insect because I know of only insect that eat paper. I find Dalian in the following, to be cute and funny. Simply because her art is different and of her expression. I would have to say that Ira,  is most charming and cute there with her blush. The light makes it nicer in that part. Interesting notions:
BTW Image Stitches in the spoiler |
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| The art for this episode was awful. Just awful. Please don't ever do this again. I think the worst part was when they drew the bugs' faces up close. Did anyone catch how ridiculously stupid and silly the bugs' faces were? Dalian's "No" made the episode for me. |
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| I didn't think of Nausica specifically, but I felt like we had suddenly stepped into a Miyazaki story the moment Ira the Sage was introduced. Lots of naysayers here. I liked this episode. |
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| that was a boring episode, and the animation sucked. major meh. seemed like pointless filler. |
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| Gainax.............. |
Iilia said: Dalian: No, the insects are not that clever. Holy crap, so Dalian can say no? That right there makes the episode good enough for me. XD It was the first time I heard her say "No" as well. The animation surprised me at first but it made sense at the end. |
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| Kinda weird, but it was not all that bad. I still don't think this series is going anywhere with Gainax doing like this, especially a better introduction of the other two yomihime. I think this series calls for more episodes, and maybe some other studio too. I just don't like Gainax's way of adaptation, though I'm starting to enjoy it a bit. About the art from this series overall: I think Gainax fails hard at the animation of this show because it happens too often that objects only exist of 2D layers, that's not really the problem, but they also did care too less for the placing of them. It sometimes just look like paper figures in a cardboard box and changing the viewpoint from it, pretty lame if you ask me, especially when they have enough budget and the drawings themselves are pretty good. A missed chance. |
| This was a very nice episode, I digged the art style. |
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| isnt it about time they went to the main plot, if there was one? |
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| I thought I watch the wrong anime when I watch this one. "Ira the Eyebrow" =) laughed at this part |
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| The art style of this episode reminded me somewhat of Kemono no Souja Erin. |
| Glorified filler episode with a pointless art shift. |
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| That was kinda weird. The draawing totally changed and i went what. But then they said they went into the book and i went what? when did they enter the book? it had no explanation leading to it. And i kinda got confused oh well. so you can take books out of a book thats nice. |
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Chrad said: This thread is depressing. Osamu Kobayashi's contribution to the art was unique and beautiful. This episode has the highest quality direction in the entire series, and far from making the episode pointless, the ending reveals it as a great metaphor about the importance of storytelling. One of the best episodes, if not the best. Thank you. Not only was it obviously intentional, but it was executed with style. The way they perfectly shifted their character designs to seamlessly fit into the new art style while retaining the same personality was impressive, and some of those scenes were really well drawn (for example, that castle). I find it interesting how they did just key frames in some sequences too. Sure, you can claim they were trying to save budget, but the effect was to make it feel old-school and it worked really well. It actually made me nostalgic and now I want to watch something from the 70's. |
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| I liked the art in the episode much more than the story, but that has never been the strong point of this show. 3/5. |
| Kind of felt like I was watching a studio Ghibli film. |
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| Major what the hell episode. Didn't enjoy it, not even one bit. |
| Meh. This episode was OK But art style was disgusting. |
| Dub = fake crap. Always. |
| Great episode, with good direction and beautiful visuals. I wish there would be a whole show looking like this. I also start to hate the MAL userbase with a burning passion as they always start to bitch and whine whenever something doesn't follow the usual tropes and styles 100%. I'll never get how people can be so full of themselves that creativity feels like an insult to them. |
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HawthorneKitty said: I ಠ_ಠ'd for like forever. Me too, but I still liked the art It's own way. Boring story but watchable. |
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Chrad said: This thread is depressing. Osamu Kobayashi's contribution to the art was unique and beautiful. This episode has the highest quality direction in the entire series, and far from making the episode pointless, the ending reveals it as a great metaphor about the importance of storytelling. One of the best episodes, if not the best. THIS. The series is forgettable. But this episode was so beatiful it showed how talented the creators are. I don't know how people can be so spoiled to see it as "disgusting" or "orrible", quoting few words. Not only the art was great, but also all the writing and the directory behind it were exceptionally qualitative. |
| I liked the artistic change in this episode, better than the regular art. Wonder if they literally entered the books Inception-style to fumigate them or it the episode was just a metaphor for fumigation, but it was a more interesting concept for an episode than some previous episodes. |
| Finally this drab series has an intresting episode. Problem is now I wish the whole show was like this episode...oh well. |
| It was a bit boring to be honest but I like how they changed the style to fit the book! |
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| I liked the art style in this one, it was much better than "let's put this blobby video game filter over everything, there now it looks like a painting" style of the rest of the show. Story wise though, this show seems very very confused as to what it wants to be and each proceeding episode seems to highlight that fact more and more. BlaizeV said: Finally this drab series has an intresting episode. Problem is now I wish the whole show was like this episode...oh well. The story was not much different from other episodes, the only difference was the art style and the silly premise of going into a book to... fix termites damage?... but then again most of the episodes have plotlines that get silly towards the end. |
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| best episode yet. the Kemono no Souja Erin artstyle at first I had me thinking it was one of those low budget episodes but the next second I realized they were inside a book. The art and direction in this was brilliant. But once again, as usual with this frustrating show; this story was too big to fit into just one episode. Also it must be said the commentary on this episode is full of dumb-dumbs who can't appreciate art. Y'all really should just stick to your naruto and your trashy romcom girlfriend simulators. |
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